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The other three boys were the ones who engaged in the little talk with which this story opens. Bumpus really had another name, though few people ever thought to call him by it; yet in the register at school he was marked down as Cornelius Jasper Hawtree; while the fellow who had that strange "rubber-neck" that he was so fond of stretching to its limit, was Conrad Stedman.
He could not have called him "Hawtree" or "Mr." for his life; that savoured of gentility and the fervid past when the man was perhaps a picturesque figure, quoting the English classics in the guise of an unfortunate exile. Besides, if he fathomed Poussette's feelings correctly, the latter in his own jealousy of Crabbe might be found a powerful ally.
"Our own people rarely drink like you." "He was no innocent! He tippled, tippled. Then I came along and set up my sign, Edmund Crabbe Hawtree, Esquire; no, we'll drop the last and stick to E. Crabbe without the Esquire, d n it! Lord! what a mess I've made of it, and this rankles, Ringfield. Listen. Over at Argosy Island there's a slabsided, beastly, canting Methodist Yankee who has a shop too.
They have forced their way to the sun along a frozen path and look akin to the perils of their road: the snow-threatened lily of the valley, the chill snowdrop, the frosty snowball, the bleak hawtree, the wintry wild cherry, the wintry dogwood.
Several of the eight boys forming this patrol were lagging more or less along the dusty road; for the brisk walk on this summer day had tired them considerably. At the cheery notes of the bugle, blown by "Bumpus" Hawtree, the stray ones in uniform quickened their pace, so as to close up. Of course the stout youth had another name, and a very good one too, having been christened Cornelius Jasper.
Hawtree and I were thus thrown very much together, yet one thing kept occurring which made me very miserable. I found out that he was drinking, and Henry too! Then another thing my bad temper. Ah! how I suffered, suffered, in those days with that man, Mr. Ringfield!" "I can well believe it." "And he with me!
And then noticing that Step Hen and Davy were looking daggers at him, he hurriedly added, "particularly a stout feller they call Bumpus for short instead of Cornelius Jasper Hawtree."
You knew him when he called himself by another name?" "Yes, Mr. Edmund Hawtree. We, we I suppose you would call it a flirtation. He was very different then, as you may believe." Jealousy leapt into Ringfield's breast, the first he had ever known, and a common retort sprang to his lips. "I should hope so! I cannot bear to think of your having known him well under any circumstances. The man is low!
"The second grew out of the first, out of what I have told you. The poems they were a couple of ranch episodes, I'll let you see them presently were signed by my full name, Edmund Crabbe Hawtree. I never supposed any one I knew would see them, or seeing them trouble their heads about the writer; in fact, I never thought about the matter.
Thad Brewster, Patrol Leader, and Assistant Scout-Master. Allan Hollister, upon whom the responsibility rested after Thad. Cornelius Hawtree. Robert Quail White. Edmund Maurice Travers Smith. Conrad Stedman. Davy Jones. Stephen Bingham.
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